I agree - Tools are important. Both from a productivity point of view, but also from to insure working is a good experience in general.

At work I currently...

In all of my jobs so far I have been able to wear just about anything, including sandals, shorts, t-shirts.

I have actually walked out on two job interviews, when I...

My list of desired feature and improvements looks something like this:

Instance/cluster aware SSIS.

Scheduled Servicepack release schedule, like once per year (yes, I would consider this a feature!:-))

Many improvements to Management...

We are three DBAs managing more than 3000 SQL Server databases. Using more than 100TB of storage. Databases range from a few MB til 7-8 TB databases.

Our environment uses SQL...